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Star Trek: Generations

Synopsis

Boldly go.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.

Star Trek: Generations would have made a decent series finale for The Next Generation had it aired on television at the end of it's 7th season, but instead Paramount Pictures tried to pass off it's story as a feature film. The entire premise of the film is built around the notion that the characters of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) needed to meet, because someone somewhere thought this needed to happen to "pass on the torch" before continuing the film franchise with the new kids.

The fact is that having these two characters meet adds nothing to the film much less the…

Data: "Yes! I hate this! It is revolting!"Guinan: "More?"Data: "Please!"

Why does this movie use the exact same footage of the Klingon bird of prey being destroyed from Undiscovered Country? Is it an homage? Is it trying to signify something? Did they not want to blow up another one? I mean it's literally the same footage.

I must have seen this movie when I was younger because after turning it on it all came flooding back. Patrick Stewart's signature brand of heroicism. Brent Spiner's signature brand of hilarity. Malcolm McDowell's signature brand of villainy. Whoopie Goldberg. I certainly got more out of it this time in any case.

The crew of the original series have always been my favorite, the closest to my Trekker heart in every way. That being said, Generations has two primary goals. The first, to introduce Picard and his crew into the Star Trek cineverse, functioning as their debut and the seventh film in the franchise. The second, and more important, is to serve as the transition of TOS to TNG, Kirk to Picard. On the first purpose, Generations succeeds. The story is compelling, villain interesting and conclusion pretty good. But as an ode to the legendary TOS crew? It fails pretty miserably. Kirk feels like an afterthought, a poorly applied bow to a package that didn't need one. As a disciple of Captain Kirk and his adventures, plus Shatner's legendary performance as the man himself; Generations is just a bit insulting, a unintentional middle finger to TOS's legacy.

Disclaimer: Take my review with a grain of salt as I am a huge fan of the original Star Trek film franchise and cast!

An average affair in my eyes that never hooked me with its content or its characters! Kind of ticked me off that they brought in a widely admired Star Trek character only to kill him off not once but twice!

It'll be interesting to see if I eventually cross over to the dark side and become a fan of this aberation of Star Trek!

This was a nice transition from the original cast to TNG. I’m really enjoying the dynamic between the new cast, but I still enjoy the originals a little bit more. They bring a more interesting vibe in my opinion.

As for this film, I don’t think it’s as bad as people say. I thought the return of Kirk was a welcome inclusion, even though it kinda ruins the finality of the sixth film. The effects are great, and the concept was overall very interesting. Malcolm McDowell was a bit underwhelming and I wish he had more to do. There are points in the movie that could have been great, but end up being just OK.

This feels like a film hedging its bets, afraid to fully leave behind the original crew. As a result, it simultaneously undermines both the farewell the original crew received in Undiscovered Country and the big-screen debut of the Next Generation cast. The whole story feels like it's trying to borrow validation from Kirk and company when the torch had already been successfully passed. Add to that Kirk's anti-climactic death and you end up with an underwhelming beginning that still manages to be the second-best of the Next Gen films.

This film is just so unfortunate in every respect because it could have been great, Malcom McDowell steals the show while everyone else doesn't seem to want to be there; while there are high stakes presented in dialogue, the actual depiction of those stakes are never shown and therefore the ending feels lackluster.

I did realize somewhere in here I got kinda bored, but I liked it. this was an experiment in structure with you getting the OG enterprise crew, a tragic fakeout, and then they switch to picars and co and I was seriously appreciating the intro to the cinematic second generation gang and taking their time showing us how the opening factors in and... then it had been so long I forgot kirk was even in this, and it was kinda awkward, and even though I liked most of picard and soren's dialogue, the ending just kinda... fell flat. but there were some really cool ideas in here. as an old alpha white dude whose dream is literally living in a…

A great follow up to the tv show. Plays out like a long episode with some great villains both old and new. The Enterprise D got wrecked and I loved it. Favorite part of the film was Data's line as he was crash landing the ship.